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qwen3:0.6b600M |
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Best tiny reasoner. Qwen3 improved reasoning at small sizes. |
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smollm2:135m135M |
2K |
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Absolute floor of intelligence. Might produce word salad. |
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4/20 |
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smollm2:360m360M |
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Marginally less hopeless than 135m. |
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4/20 |
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qwen2.5-coder:0.5b500M |
32K |
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Code-focused but stunted at this size. |
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3/20 |
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qwen2.5:0.5b500M |
32K |
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General purpose but tiny. Struggles with code. |
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functiongemma:270m270M |
8K |
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Google's tool-calling only. Can't freestyle, single-turn. |
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eternis-tc:0.6b600M |
4K |
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HF tool-calling fine-tune of Qwen3-0.6B. Chat + tools. |
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llama3.2:1b1B |
32K |
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Meta's tiny entry. Decent instruction following. |
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gemma3:1b1B |
32K |
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Google's latest tiny. Good at structured output. |
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qwen2.5:1.5b1.5B |
32K |
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Decent reasoning, light code ability. |
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qwen2.5-coder:1.5b1.5B |
32K |
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Sweet spot coder. Big quality jump over 0.5b. |
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deepseek-r1:1.5b1.5B |
32K |
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Chain-of-thought reasoner. Thinks out loud. |
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smollm2:1.7b1.7B |
2K |
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SmolLM's best shot. Crippled by 2K context. |
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qwen3:1.7b1.7B |
32K |
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Solid reasoning for size. Good orchestrator candidate. |
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codegemma:2b2B |
8K |
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Google code model. Good at infilling/completions. |
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qwen3-vl:2b2B |
32K |
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Vision model. Can see screenshots of its own work. |
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qwen2.5:3b3B |
32K |
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Solid general purpose. Real contender territory. |
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qwen2.5-coder:3b3B |
32K |
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★ Best coder in our range. The favorite. |
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llama3.2:3b3B |
32K |
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Solid Meta baseline. Good all-rounder. |
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starcoder2:3b3B |
16K |
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BigCode completion model. Not chat-tuned. |
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qwen3:4b4B |
32K |
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★ Best reasoning in range. Largest model we test. |
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qwen3-vl:4b4B |
32K |
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Vision + reasoning. Can debug by looking at UI. |
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qwen3-tc:4b4B |
4K |
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HF tool-calling champion. 2K+ downloads. |
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